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The entrants were tabulated an official certified list. This paper is used for various projects such as grocery lists, and children's projects in the Black household. Fortunately there was a blank sheet to be found.
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Congratulations to my bloggy friend, Tammy! In addition to getting to eat one of Pizza Hut's famous pastas on me, I'm also going to show you some link love. Please visit Tammy at 
I feel the terror screaming inside. My palms are sweaty. I feel my heart pounding. I can't control it and I don't know why. I have to be in control. I need to be in control. Why is this happening to me?! What have I done to cause this? I am beginning to panic. "Calm down" I tell myself. I cannot let them see me out of control like this. I cannot allow them to fear what I fear. It is just not right. When is it going to end? Is it almost time....
I have been a fan of American Idol since Kelly Clarkson was crowned queen of the first season. I love Simon's honesty. Most of the time what he says I was thinking, I would just never have the guts to tell them! Paula...well, she's just Paula, right?! We can never understand what she is thinking and she would never be as brutally honest as Simon. She always finds something good to say about the performers. Randy is "muh - dawg"! Kara, well I don't care too much for her but that's a whole 'nother blog post.
I watched tonight and did something that I have never done in any season before. I voted!!! That's right, my friends I am not longer a voting virgin! Tonight was a rough night for most of the performers, but I felt that one performance stood out above the rest. Arkansas native Kris Allen started off a bit rocky but he finished off amazing! I love this guy. He's awesome and I sure hope to see him make it into the TOP 12! He is a very talented young man! I've also joined his facebook group. Since he is a local, I hope to be able to see him perform but I'm sure that tickets won't be cheap after his new found fame! Good luck Kris. I'm pulling for you even after American Idol. You're totally "Kick Awesome"!!!
I've been seeing the commercials for a while now, you know the ones I'm talking about don't you?! The hungry patrons are gathered in a restaurant and they're served some amazing pasta. The cameras pan around the table while they indulge in the pasta and rave about how great it tastes. Then comes the big reveal. They are going to meet the chef. We suddenly see a line of Pizza Hut employees emerge from the kitchen carrying boxes of cheesy, Italian goodness.
Pizza Hut now offers their Tuscani Pastas in four different flavors: Meaty Marinara, Creamy Chicken Alfredo, Premium Bacon Mac 'N Cheese, and the newest flavor is Tuscani Lasagna. We had the pleasure of trying the Lasagna for dinner tonight. The Italian-inspired Lasagna features lasagna noodles, real ricotta, Parmesan and Romano cheeses, and a hearty Italian-seasoned meat sauce.
Three pounds of lasagna and five bread sticks later I have a happy, stuffed family all for only $14.99! As a working mother of three children I was thrilled to give this a try. We enjoyed the lasagna and after dinner, I snapped a photo of Shelby as she was eating the lasagna right out of the pan! Whether or not you're on the go looking for a delicious, quick meal or you just don't want to cook tonight, Pizza Hut's Tuscani Pastas are an amazing choice!
If you haven't tried Pizza Hut's new Tuscani Pasta, would you like to try one on me?! That's right, you can feed your family this delicious Italian goodness for free?! Here's how:
Leave a comment with your name and make sure that I can get in touch with you via your blog profile, or e-mail. If I cannot contact you, I can't get you the prize (a Pizza Hut gift card).
For extra entries, you can tweet a link to this post on twitter, add it to facebook, or post it on your blog. This contest will close at midnight Friday, February 27, 2009. Good luck to you all!
Dear Mr Postman,
I received a piece of mail today, three days later than I had expected it. You probably knew that, though didn't you?! I have a sneaky suspicion that you might have kept it in your mail truck over the weekend to entertain yourself. You see, I subscribed to Netflix because I love the convenience of getting online, clicking on the movies I would love to enjoy, and then waiting for you to deliver them to me. I was expecting two movies to arrive in my box last week, instead only one arrived and sat all alone on the tv stand and the other...well, it arrived just a bit late. Mr Postman, I hope that my popcorn of the month arrives next week in a timely manner and unpopped as I like to indulge in popcorn while I enjoy a good movie.
Next time if you would like to take home my mail for the weekend, feel free to grab a bill or hubby's Cabella's Magazine. I won't tell him what happened to it, I promise.
Thank you for your dedication (ya know the rain, sleet, or snow thing),
Your friendly neighborhood Netflix Customer
I've spent the biggest part of the day sifting through baby clothes. I put away two big trash bags full of clothes that Emily can no longer wear (many of which she NEVER wore). I finally sat down to unwind a bit and visit some Camera Critters. Imagine my surprise when I realized that my post had only been saved to a draft and NOT set to auto publish. *sigh*
Which High School Musical 3 cutie gave her co-star a black eye? Who sweated through three prom dresses? Which HSM fella fell over the most on camera? The shameful secrets are all on the newly released HSM 3 on DVD. The DVD not only includes these and more blooper scenes, but also deleted scenes and a sing along.
Shelby and I had a girl's night out with my sister and her daughter the weekend that this movie hit the theaters. We'd watched the other two movies when they debuted on the Disney channel but this was the first movie to hit the big screen. What a brilliant marketing plan on Disney's part! It was fun going to see this movie with my daughter because she is SUCH a HSM fan (remember she was Sharpay for Halloween. We've seen HSM on ice and live on stage!!!
The third installment picks up where HSM 2 left off. Troy, Gabriella, and all of their friends are not only planning their senior prom, graduation, and Spring "Musicale" but they're planning out their lives after high school. Where are they going to go to college? Will Troy go to a college on a basketball scholarship or will he go to the Julliard school of arts? Old friendships and relationships will be tested and new ones formed as three new cast members are introduced. I suspect that there will be a new cast of HSM stars in the near future with the new characters including the very funny "Rocketman".
The soundtrack in this movie is phenomenal. It snagged Billboard's Top honors for Soundtrack of the year. We bought the soundtrack as soon as it was available. It's on my ipod and we listen to it in the truck just about every day. Yup, I can sing just like Gabriella. Well, at least I know all of the words to her songs. My favorites are "Can I Have This Dance" and "I want it all."
Today as I drove Shelby home from school we talked about her "sight words". These are words that her teacher expects her to know. In other words, she should be able to see them on a flash card and recite them without having to s-o-u-n-d them out.
Examples: a, I, the, and, was, you, him,
She was going over some sight words that she'd missed on her last test. One particular word was the number two. This type of word is difficult for her. She began to sound the word out.
In my plea yesterday for a good place to get some cute head wraps for my bald follicle challenged 5 month old daughter, I looked around a bit in the stock pile of hair accessories that we have collected over the years for her older sister. I found some head wraps that we'd bought for Shelby last summer. With a little bit of experimenting, I realized that some of the alligator style clips can be attached to these bands and look pretty cute. This morning I came across this pink pony tail holder. I just wrapped it around the band and made a cute little "crown" for Emily, "Princess of the Little People".
She didn't seem to mind it. I let her look at herself in the mirror. She loves to play with that little baby and give her kisses. Who could resist this face?! Now if we could only turn her kisses into a fat burner I'd be perfectly content! 
Little Emily, my five month old just recovered from RSV, a very serious respiratory illness. She's been better and then over the weekend she took a down turn again. She has been coughing horribly. The thing about this little girl is that it's hard to tell when she's sick because she is such a happy baby, sick nor not. The cough worsened, and the rattling in her chest sounded like an old Chevy pick up truck. I took her in today and the doc said that she now has bronchitis and an ear infection! We're on antibiotics for the ear and re-visiting the dreadful "puffer" (inhaler) and yummy cough medicine. The good news is this should disappear quickly whereas the RSV hung around for several weeks. Until then, Emily is making calls to tell everyone she's okay. At least I hope that she is. How much does a call to China cost, probably not as much as a Mesothelioma lawyer?
Shelby at her Kindergarten Valentine's Day birthday party on Friday.
My address has changed. No, I didn't move, but my blog is no longer a blogspot blog. I'm a dot com! I'm officially a crazyworking dot com mom! That has a nice ring to it doesn't it?! For those of you linking to me, could you kindly change my address in your sidebar. For those of you not linking to me, it's a good time to do so! I'm new and improved and if you want to be added here, just leave me a comment. My links are do follow.
Since today is a day of love, I'm showing some link love for those of you in my link list (located on the left hand sidebar). If you are NOT in my link love list and you want to be, just leave me a comment and let me know. If I am in YOUR link list could you kindly redirect my link to http://www.crazyworkingmom.com? Thank you so very much! I spent much of the day adding these links to my domain. I was using Blogrolling.com. Their site was hacked at the end of last year and it's still not back up and running. I couldn't add or delete links, so I am no longer using a linking service. I'm doing it the old fashioned way. Better for YOU and me.
Yesterday was my beautiful Kindergartener's Valentine's Day party. We had a fun time celebrating the occasion with her class. There were enough cookies, chips, and treats to make your teeth fall out right before you crashed from your sugar high!!! You can see Shelby going through her Valentines in the photo to the left. There were no wedding invitations, only sweet cards from Spiderman to Tinkerbell. 
Before the party, Shelby and her class participated in the 30th anniversary Jump Rope For Heart. I'll tell you one thing, there is nothing quite as comical as watching a gymnasium full of Kindergarteners trying to jump rope! Their method is as follows: quickly slam the rope over your head smashing it on the ground, once it hits the ground, hop over it, repeat with no rhythm. I did not take my video camera, but I wished that I would have because it was quite a interesting.
How are you spending your Valentine's Day? We've made no plans. It's just a typical Saturday around here. I'm watching a movie, blogging, and trying to get caught up on laundry...mostly at the same time. Whatever your plans, I hope that you have a wonderful day.
Don't forget that I have changed my domain name. I am now http://www.crazyworkingmom.com so if you link to me, kindly change it in your sidebar. Thank you!
